Refereed Conference Proceedings

Dessouky, Y., and Abdulrahim, S. (2004) “Lot Sizing and Sequence Dependent Setup Time for a Flowshop”,pp 762-768, Proceedings of the 34th Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, San Francisco, CA.

National Science Foundation – University of Southern California, $3,200, 2003.
Debugging of the scheduling module for the Virtual Factory Teaching System, developed at USC, for teaching students in manufacturing, engineering, and business programs to better understand the complexities of factory dynamics.

Summer 2003 SJSU-COE Instructional Development Grant, $10000, 2003.
Development of a supply chain concentration area for the ISE graduate grogram.

Professional Development Grant, $1500, 2002.
Purchase of the ASPROVA high speed scheduling software.

San Jose State University – Teaching Excellence Fund, $7000, 2002.
Development of a comprehensive case study to be implemented by the Virtual Factory Teaching System.

Applied Materials, $15,100, 2001.
Development of a model to evaluate various test strategies.

National Science Foundation – University of Southern California, $20,119, 1999-2002.
Assessment of a Virtual Factory Teaching System, developed at USC, for teaching students in manufacturing, engineering, and business programs to better understand the complexities of factory dynamics.

Professional Development Grant, $1500, 1998.
Presented research work at a major conference.

Shoupp Award, $3500, 1995-1997.
Development of an object-oriented virtual factory environment for linking logic controllers with a scheduling system in real-time.

Other Sponsored Research Projects Worked On

Fund for Improvement of Postsecondary Education, 2002

Assessment of the newly established Environmental, Health, and Safety Engineering Program.

Society of Manufacturing Engineering, 1998-2000

Development of a program to create and deliver appropriately designed curriculum to enable students of diverse education backgrounds to enter either the workforce or a community college program in manufacturing information systems engineering.

Rockwell International, 1993-1994

Implemented continuous simulation constructs into a function block discrete simulation model. The simulation model is used for validating control code logic that will be implemented into an Allen-Bradley PLC.

Honeywell Inc., 1990-1994

Assisted in the analysis, modeling, and development of an object-oriented model to support the simulation of batch and continuous processes for operator training in real-time.

Allied-Signal Aerospace Company, Garrett Engine Division, Summer 1992

Developed an IDEF0 functional model of precision gear manufacturing. The model considered business functions starting with the proposal stage and continuing through to the fabrication stage.

United States Air Force, 1986-1987

Assisted in the technology transfer for an Air Force sponsored project known as Integrated Information Support System (IISS).